Beginner’s guide to set up a Raspberry ( no external keyboard, mouse required)

I am writing a new series on Raspberry Pi hacks so starting with beginners guide to setup a raspberry for those who never used a Raspberry Pi before.I am explaining the simplest method to setup a raspberry pi 3 mode B without using any external USB keyboard or mouse.

Raspberry Pi is a single board computer.You can connect it to USB Mouse, keyboard, and an HDMI monitor and you are ready with a computer.

Requirements :

Raspberry Pi 3 ( Buy it on Amazon @ 3000 INR approx)

High-speed SD card ( Class 10 )

Ethernet Cable

Wifi Router ( Ethernet support )

Any laptop ( Process below is for Windows 10 laptop )

Step by step guide for the set up:

>> Os installation

first, take your newly ordered raspberry pi and connect it to a power source.Any standard mobile charger can work. (+5.1 v/ 2.5 A)

Now take the SD card and using a USB Card reader, connect it to your laptop.we need to install the OS first.

Using an image burning tool like etcher, burn the downloaded image to your SD card.

After the process completes check if all the files are there on the SD card.

>> Accessing the raspberry’s OS

Since we don’t have any USB Mouse, Keyboard or Monitor to connect, we need to connect our raspberry with a remote SSH Client.

Download putty for windows in your laptop.

Meanwhile, we need to perform a simple hack here as SSH is disabled by default in raspberry.Open SD card folder using the card reader and place a file named SSH without any extension. This can be done using a windows command too. >> echo *pathname “E:\ “* > ssh

Now we need to install one more software named IP Scanner to get our host IP of Raspberry Pi.

Connect your Raspberry to the wifi router using the Ethernet cable, make sure that your laptop is on the same wifi network.

Using IP Scanner get the IP of Raspberry Pi and Using Putty client try connecting to your Raspberry PI.